Manchester United decided to sack Jose Mourinho because they were unhappy with a lack of progress in form, style of play and development of their young players.
United released a statement on Tuesday morning confirming they had parted company with Mourinho after two-and-a-half years and that an external caretaker manager would be placed in charge until the end of the campaign.
The MEN understands that United was concerned that Mourinho's ego was jeopardizing the harmony at the club, where he stripped Paul Pogba of the second captain's role in September. A recent team meeting was also cited by a player as the tipping point in the squad's relationship with Mourinho.
Ironically, Mourinho said in September: "Manchester United is bigger than anyone and I have to defend that."
United believe they sufficiently backed Mourinho with £358.7million in the transfer market on 11 players during his time in charge and that they expected a greater measure of progress within that timeframe.
United bought Eric Bailly, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Paul Pogba in a £145.3m spending spree in Mourinho's first summer transfer window in 2016 and £140.9m on Victor Lindelof, Romelu Lukaku and Nemanja Matic in his second. That figure plummeted to £73.2m in the 2018 transfer window and ended without two of Mourinho's priority targets, which caused considerable unrest between the manager and the board.
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